Carpet-stretcher.



PATENTED NOV. 10, 1903.

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NITED STATES Patented November 10, 1963.

PATENT FFICE.

CARPET-STRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 743,629, dated November 10, 1903.

Application filed February 6, 1903. Serial No. 142,117. Ctio model.)

To alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK L. FOSS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsbnrg, in the county of-Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carpet-Stretchers, of which improvement the following is a specification'.

This invention relates to an improved carpetstretcher; and it consists in a piece of metal bent and shaped in a peculiar form having a series of teeth or spurs either formed integral with the body portion or attached thereto, together with the certain details of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved carpetstretcher, the same being constructed and arran gedin accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the manner of using the stretcher. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of the forward end of my improved stretcher, a part of which is shown in section the better to show t-he adjustable teeth. Fig. i is a full-sized side elevation of one of the adjustable teeth removed from the stretcher.

To construct a carpet-stretcher in accordance with my invention, I form from suitable metal a central portion 1, preferably annular in cross-section, having a broad flat head 2, 2.

downwardly-bent portion 3 terminating in a sharpened point 4. This broad flattened portion 2 is formed and bent in the manner shown at Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings and the front At the rear of these above-described teeth 6 are a series of threaded openings arranged in par allel lines across the said head, and in each openingis fitted a tooth,consisti ng of athreaded shank 8, having a kerf 9 at the one end and a sharpened point 7 at the other. By this construction the points 7 may be adjusted to project a greater or less distance from the head 2 and may be removed for sharpening.

and readily replaced.

In practice the point 4 is engaged with the floor of the room and the carpet 11 bent over the toothed head 2, as shown at Fig. 2, and grasped by the hand, and it is obvious that the leverage in connection with the weight of theoperator will stretch the carpet at that point either in adirect line or at either side.

The many advantages of this stretcher will be recognized by those skilled in the art of carpet-laying.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patsigned my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK L. FOSS. In presence of H. J. Lnvrs, JOHN GROETZINGER. 

